Learn how the narrative paradigm provides tools for understanding how programs are received by audiences based on narrative fidelity and probability. Understand how to establish a significance for... More > your program, using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to see how people rank human needs. Your program solves a problem, but does your document or proposal invoke the visualization technique? When you describe the problem do you do so in the form of a scenario with a link, brink, and impact? How is it that audiences dedicated to your cause experience dissonance to your proposal? What is dissonance? This text takes you on a journey of understanding advanced communication concepts to better understand how to write, speak, and evaluate policy. Not only will you establish a comparative advantage, but you will understand what it is and why it’s so important in policy and program persuasion.< Less

Learn how the narrative paradigm provides tools for understanding how programs are received by audiences based on narrative fidelity and probability. Understand how to establish a significance for... More > your program, using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to see how people rank human needs. Your program solves a problem, but does your document or proposal invoke the visualization technique? When you describe the problem do you do so in the form of a scenario with a link, brink, and impact? How is it that audiences dedicated to your cause experience dissonance to your proposal? What is dissonance? This text takes you on a journey of understanding advanced communication concepts to better understand how to write, speak, and evaluate policy. Not only will you establish a comparative advantage, but you will understand what it is and why it’s so important in policy and program persuasion.< Less

Critically, IG planning and policy development must support the achievement of the organization’s business objectives. This new Management Guide will help managers in developing their IG... More > project plan & policies. it includes organizational analysis, risk assessment, and specific processes to implement an Information Governance (IG) program. As a 'Complete Planning & Policy Guide' available for the first time, it provides a blueprint in clear, actionable terms. It includes risk mitigation techniques, key IG standards & best practices, and a review of the Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM) and ARMA's Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles, which are key inputs to inform your IG construct. Available as a full-color PDF download of 100+ pages, this is a critical resource for today's managers charged with IG responsibilities Peruse the Table of Contents, read the Executive Summary and a sample of the Guide at no cost, and then purchase this essential resource today!< Less

Critically, IG planning and policy development must support the achievement of the organization’s business objectives. This new Management Guide will help managers in developing their IG... More > project plan & policies. it includes organizational analysis, risk assessment, and specific processes to implement an Information Governance (IG) program. As a 'Complete Planning & Policy Guide' available for the first time, it provides a blueprint in clear, actionable terms. It includes risk mitigation techniques, key IG standards & best practices, and a review of the Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM) and ARMA's Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles, which are key inputs to inform your IG construct. Available as a full-color paperback book of 100+ pages, this is a critical resource for today's managers charged with IG responsibilities Peruse the Table of Contents, read the Executive Summary and a sample of the Guide at no cost, and then purchase this essential resource today!< Less

The transformation of the U.S. military is entering a critical stage. The Department of Defense is initiating the most far-reaching changes in its worldwide bases and deployments since the 1950s.... More > Parallel efforts to consolidate domestic bases and defense facilities are likely as well, now that the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission has begun its work. And the Quadrennial Defense Review currently underway could have a profound impact on the size and shape of future forces. As defense planners grapple with the pace and direction of military transformation, the budgetary context of strategic decisionmaking is becoming much less favorable. In this monograph, Dennis S. Ippolito focuses on the spending policy, deficit and debt, and retirement and healthcare entitlement dynamics that will make it difficult, if not impossible, to fund current defense plans.< Less

The Denver and Salt Lake City Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) have embarked upon regional visioning strategies that promote development around higher
density, mixed use centers with... More > current or future access to transit. This study examines the programs and policies in the Salt Lake City and Denver regions to examine regional
vision influence on local planning and the opportunities and constraints facing centers. The research team analyzed local plans over the past several decades, interviewed
planners, and examined demographic, land use and transportation characteristics in select centers across the region. We found that the regional vision had a moderate influence
on local planning, due to vague definitions and criteria. However, light rail investment and market forces have had a more substantial influence—resulting in cities developing
supportive transit oriented development policies.< Less

The Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center’s California Policy Options offers an unflinching assessment of the measures the State has undertaken to address its fiscal, environmental, transportation, and... More > planning issues; the ramifications of the programs and legislation that have been implemented; and alternative proposals that could prove to be viable solutions to California’s policy and planning problems.
Addressing the interrelated challenges in transportation, housing, land use, legislation, resource allocation, energy, and policy with the ubiquitous budget challenges, this annual volume exemplifies the strength of the UCLA School of Public Affairs as a nexus of thought-provoking new ideas that transcend disciplinary boundaries.< Less

This is a book by an experienced small business merchant of more than 60 years, in which he addresses the problems faced by today's declining American economy and presents solutions available through... More > a renewed and strengthened small business sector. His thesis is that the quantity discount (QD) movement among mass merchandisers has destroyed too many small businesses and that a more favorable environment for small business in general could well bring back the vibrancy of the entire economy. He provides a plan, centered around a one price wholesale purchase policy, for accomplishing this.< Less

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